With Balanced Payments, you can easily start accepting credit cards and escrow payments right on your AppThemes site today **.

The Balanced Payments Gateway completely integrates into your website to offer the best possible checkout experience. Plus, it integrates with new themes like HireBee to provide unique business models that make things possible like escrow payments. With escrow payments, a buyer can pay for a service initially and the money is not paid out to the seller until both parties agree that the service has been completed. With Balanced Payments, your microjob site just go a whole lot more awesome.

Balanced Payments also is a fully functional instant payment gateway. Use it to take credit and debit card payments in any of our themes, without redirects, third party branding, or logos. It just you, your users, and your site.

The Balanced Payments Payment Gateway currently works with HireBee, but support for the rest of our products that support AppThemes Payments.

What countries are supported?
Currently Balanced Payments only works in the US. They have plans to expand internationally, however. Here’s the supporting documentation on this topic. Hopefully they’ll expand globally soon.

Once activated, you can configure the settings via the Payments Settings for your site.

Note: This plugin will automatically error and deactivate itself if the current theme is not supported. Simply reactivate the plugin through the Manage Plugins page once a support theme has been selected.

Does anyone monitor the support forum for this plugin? I installed the plugin and when I activate it my whole site crashes and cant be accessed unless I remove the plugin from the site. This plugin seems to have a bug.

Hi Team, I like this plugin but before buying it I want to know if it is able to receive visa or master card payments from India, my business and bank account is based in India and my main customers are from India only.

PayPal is provided in every ecommerce theme we create. You are able to use PayPal as an option for both Instant and Escrow payments, so you could provide it as a method of payment for sellers that don’t want to enter in their bank information.

At the same time, the methodology being used is completely PCI-compliant while serving the product page over an https connection.

We do not have any idea of when Balanced Payments plans to allow for more international options in their setup. When they do, if there are any necessary changes required to make our plugin compatible with it we will jump right on it. But at the moment it is our of our hands.

I am from India I have purchased HireBee theme none of Payment Gateway plugin Supports in India , I have invested a lot of money all of Wasted .Please launch Pay U payment gateway and other Payment Gateways for India SO I can use your Hire Bee Theme I can do Setup If you launch pay U and plugins for India.Please Do it Soon ,I am willing to Know When you are going to launch payment gateway for India ?

Balanced Payments is not interested in providing service to Freelance and Job board sites, so what is the point of this plugin? We wasted time and money, not to mention balanced’s unprofessional behavior.

We started building a payments service for marketplaces in 2011. We were shocked with the state of payments at the time, and the pains a marketplace had to go through. Unfortunately, we haven’t been able to reach the escape velocity necessary to be a large, innovative, independent player in the payments space and have decided not to continue building Balanced. We reached out to Stripe and have been working with them to provide a smooth path forward for our customers. Our full API and dashboard will be available until June 11, 2015, and support for issuing refunds, querying transactions, and fighting chargebacks will continue until October 9, 2015.